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A Vers de Société Anthology

by Carolyn Wells

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  1. 1Epigraph — Note
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3To Celia
  4. 4Cupid
  5. 5Rosalind’s Madrigal
  6. 6All Things Except Myself I Know
  7. 7Cupid and Campaspe
  8. 8A Ditty
  9. 9Song From “Twelfth Night”
  10. 10Sigh No More — (From “Much Ado About Nothing”)
  11. 11Phillida and Corydon
  12. 12Cherry-Ripe
  13. 13Send Back My Long-Stray’d Eyes to Me
  14. 14Pack Clouds Away
  15. 15Shall I, Wasting in Despair
  16. 16To the Virgins to Make Much of Time
  17. 17The Bracelet
  18. 18An Old Rhyme
  19. 19Love Me Not for Comely Grace
  20. 20On a Girdle
  21. 21To My Love
  22. 22To Althea (From Prison)
  23. 23Song
  24. 24The Despairing Lover
  25. 25Cupid Mistaken
  26. 26The Contrast
  27. 27Oh, Tell Me How to Woo Thee
  28. 28Song From “The Duenna”
  29. 29The Races — A Ballad
  30. 30To Lady Anne Hamilton
  31. 31To Mrs. Leigh Upon Her Wedding-Day
  32. 32Names
  33. 33The Exchange
  34. 34Defiance
  35. 35Her Lips
  36. 36Commination
  37. 37Margaret and Dora
  38. 38A Certain Young Lady
  39. 39Song
  40. 40The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing
  41. 41When I Loved You
  42. 42Reason, Folly, and Beauty
  43. 43Tiresome Spring!
  44. 44Rosette
  45. 45She Is So Pretty
  46. 46Rondeau
  47. 47Stolen Fruit
  48. 48Love and Age
  49. 49Clubs
  50. 50To Anne
  51. 51Song
  52. 52What Is London’s Last New Lion?
  53. 53I’d Be a Butterfly
  54. 54“I Must Come Out Next Spring”
  55. 55“Why Don’t the Men Propose?”
  56. 56Ask and Have
  57. 57Lines in a Young Lady’s Album
  58. 58The Time of Roses
  59. 59Love
  60. 60To Helen
  61. 61The Belle of the Ball-Room
  62. 62Amy’s Cruelty
  63. 63Beware!
  64. 64Love in a Cottage
  65. 65Because
  66. 66Lilian
  67. 67The Henchman
  68. 68Dorothy Q — A Family Portrait
  69. 69A Reminiscence
  70. 70The Age of Wisdom
  71. 71The Ballad of Bouillabaisse
  72. 72An Invitation
  73. 73Fanny; or the Beauty and the Bee
  74. 74Garden Fancies — The Flower’s Name
  75. 75A Poem of Every-Day Life
  76. 76Love Disposed of
  77. 77Mabel, in New Hampshire
  78. 78The Coquette — A Portrait
  79. 79Justine, You Love Me Not!
  80. 80Sing Heigh-Ho!
  81. 81Snowdrop
  82. 82The Protest
  83. 83Scherzo
  84. 84The Handsomest Man in the Room
  85. 85The Lawyer’s Invocation to Spring
  86. 86A Terrible Infant
  87. 87Loulou and Her Cat
  88. 88Piccadilly
  89. 89A Word That Makes Us Linger
  90. 90My Mistress’s Boots
  91. 91A Nice Correspondent!
  92. 92There’s a Time to Be Jolly
  93. 93I Remember, I Remember
  94. 94The Flower of Love Lies Bleeding
  95. 95The Gold Room — An Idyl
  96. 96Comfort
  97. 97A Summer Song
  98. 98My Aunt’s Spectre
  99. 99A Conceit
  100. 100Martial in London
  101. 101The Best of the Ball
  102. 102The Ballad of Dead Ladies
  103. 103Feminine Arithmetic
  104. 104A Trifle
  105. 105Flight
  106. 106Love
  107. 107Since We Parted
  108. 108A Kiss — By Mistake
  109. 109A Game of Fives
  110. 110A Valentine
  111. 111The Wedding Day
  112. 112Edged Tools
  113. 113Witchcraft
  114. 114Toujours Amour
  115. 115Dictum Sapienti
  116. 116Undowered
  117. 117The Love-Knot
  118. 118Vers de Société
  119. 119A Letter of Advice
  120. 120At the Lattice
  121. 121French With a Master
  122. 122On an Intaglio Head of Minerva
  123. 123The Lunch
  124. 124The Witch in the Glass
  125. 125To Phœbe
  126. 126My Love and My Heart
  127. 127To a Country Cousin
  128. 128The Family Fool
  129. 129An Interlude
  130. 130A Match
  131. 131Caprice
  132. 132The Minuet
  133. 133A Street Sketch
  134. 134Saint May — A City Lyric
  135. 135Pet’s Punishment
  136. 136Her Letter
  137. 137Avice
  138. 138A Song of the Four Seasons
  139. 139In Town
  140. 140When I Saw You Last, Rose
  141. 141To “Lydia Languish”
  142. 142The Old Sedan Chair
  143. 143“Le Roman de la Rose”
  144. 144Ninety-Nine in the Shade
  145. 145Brighton Pier
  146. 146A Contradiction
  147. 147Rondel
  148. 148White, Pillared Neck
  149. 149Janet
  150. 150For a Fan
  151. 151Ballade of Summer
  152. 152Colinette
  153. 153Ballade of Dead Ladies — (After Villon)
  154. 154Il Bacio
  155. 155Sur L’Herbe
  156. 156The Romance of a Glove
  157. 157If
  158. 158Don’t
  159. 159On Rereading Télémaque
  160. 160Valentine
  161. 161Biftek aux Champignons
  162. 162An Explanation
  163. 163Marjorie’s Kisses
  164. 164Miss Nancy’s Gown
  165. 165“Le Dernier Jour D’Un Condamné”
  166. 166My Wooing
  167. 167Wintry Paris
  168. 168The Rose
  169. 169Indecision
  170. 170Logic
  171. 171Conversational
  172. 172If You Want a Kiss, Why, Take It
  173. 173Educational Courtship
  174. 174Kissing’s No Sin
  175. 175The Best Thing in the World
  176. 176Her Neighbours
  177. 177To Celia
  178. 178In for It
  179. 179Kirtle Red
  180. 180A Bagatelle
  181. 181A Love Test
  182. 182The Mistaken Moth
  183. 183My Pretty Neighbor
  184. 184If
  185. 185To Mistress Pyrrha
  186. 186The Tea-Gown
  187. 187A Paraphrase
  188. 188A Leap-Year Episode
  189. 189Ballade of Ladies’ Names
  190. 190Ballade of June
  191. 191Ballade Made in the Hot Weather
  192. 192A Rose
  193. 193To Minnie
  194. 194An American Girl
  195. 195Larks and Nightingales
  196. 196Caeli
  197. 197Lady Mine
  198. 198The Ripest Peach
  199. 199“I Journeyed South to Meet the Spring”
  200. 200Before the Blossom
  201. 201Love in the Calendar
  202. 202My Grandmother’s Turkey-Tail Fan
  203. 203Valentine
  204. 204A Valentine
  205. 205On a Hymn-Book
  206. 206The Ballade of the Summer-Boarder
  207. 207Interesting
  208. 208The Way to Arcady
  209. 209Da Capo
  210. 210The Maid of Murray Hill
  211. 211Kitty’s Summering
  212. 212Forfeits
  213. 213When Will Love Come?
  214. 214Heliotrope
  215. 215Borderland
  216. 216Epithalamium
  217. 217Infirm
  218. 218Words, Words, Words
  219. 219The Bluebell
  220. 220A Modern Martyrdom
  221. 221A Corsage Bouquet — The Ballad of Cassandra Brown
  222. 222From Three Fly Leaves
  223. 223Question and Answer
  224. 224A Rhyme for Priscilla
  225. 225The Old Collector
  226. 226The Last Ditch
  227. 227Be Ye in Love With April-Tide
  228. 228Strawberries
  229. 229Applied Astronomy
  230. 230Courtship
  231. 231Eyes of Black and Eyes of Blue
  232. 232Her Faults
  233. 233A Modern Dialogue
  234. 234The Poet’s Proposal
  235. 235Truth
  236. 236The Bachelor Girl
  237. 237The Sea
  238. 238In Philistia
  239. 239Between the Showers
  240. 240Grace’s Choice
  241. 241To Violet
  242. 242Her Bonnet
  243. 243A Song
  244. 244Les Papillottes
  245. 245Upon Graciosa, Walking and Talking
  246. 246Her Valentine
  247. 247Story of the Gate
  248. 248Two Triolets
  249. 249A Ballade of Old Sweethearts
  250. 250Amour de Voyage
  251. 251The Lovers’ Litany
  252. 252A Lenten Call
  253. 253Helen’s Face a Book
  254. 254The Butterfly’s Madrigal
  255. 255Ballade of the Devil-May-Care
  256. 256Ballade of Dreams Transposed
  257. 257Villanelle of His Lady’s Treasure
  258. 258L’Envoi
  259. 259A Merry Blue-Eyed Laddie
  260. 260Dance Time
  261. 261How Like a Woman
  262. 262A Vignette

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